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In reply to the discussion: Re: Attacks on Snowden, Greenwald. How the fuck do people like that sleep at night? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)A film about Snowden will soon be released. It may tell the story in a form that people will really understand. Snowden initiated the contact with Greenwald. There is no doubt about it. Snowden also initiated contact with Laura Poitras. Snowden left the country and took documentation for his claims with him including a lot of NSA documents because he knew what had happened to previous whistleblowers, how they had been harassed and threatened with imprisonment.
Best to get the facts rather than to speculate about what happened. Best to read the book. Snowden has not denied the facts as recounted by Greenwald. I know it is comfortable to believe what one wants to believe, but facts are facts. There is no evidence that Greenwald, Poitras and Snowden are lying. But there is al ot of propaganda and a lot of wishful thinking that the NSA programs are OK and that Greenwald and Snowden are somehow not OK.
Sorry, but if you read Greenwald's book and still think that Greenwald set Snowden up, then please let me know what your evidence supporting that theory is.
The NSA program is an insidious danger to our constitutional government. It simply is. That is the reality.